The audio companion to the Detroit episode of Photowalks offers interviews with local tour guide Ron Watts, the queen of Coney Dogs, Grace Keros from American Coney Island, and a complete walking tour guide to navigating Detroit.

The companion podcast to the Cincinnati Photowalks episode takes you through the ten best photo spots in town, what to do over a weekend, and introduces you to food tour guide Barb Cooper, photographer Dwayne Slavey, Camp Washington Chili’s Maria Papakirk and Mike Pardo from the Mariemont Inn.

The audio companion to the latest PhotowalksTV episode from New Orleans features extended interviews with some of the folks we met in the Crescent City, including the Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s Ronell Johnson, the street musicians Chris Henry and TyroneJohnson from the One-Way Brass Band, the tour guide Michelle Mashon from Bonmoment, Sean Smith, our Uber driver and local artist Grant Nelson.

ICYMI: here’s the link to watch the episode as well.

And you can read all about it here:

Huge thanks to brother Jez Graham for the song “Grandma’s Rag,” which we used in the podcast.

Longtime readers of this newsletter know that I’m a timelapse video freak.

I love using my phone to create videos that see the world fly by at top speeds, with flowing clouds, having day turn night, shadows forming and disappearing, and of course, seeing people running around the world like speedy ants.

There’s rarely been an episode of PhotowalksTV that didn’t have a timelapse section to it, and most of the recent ones have been created with my go-to, favorite timelapse app, the free Blackmagic Camera app, which is available for both Apple and Android devices.

📣 So I’m thrilled to announce another great contest with our friends at Blackmagic: Timelapse Across America.

📷 And we’ve got four great potential prizes for you:

🍎 A $2,600 high-end Blackmagic 6K camera for when you want to bring your filmmaking to the next level, and three runner-ups:

🍎 A DaVinci Resolve speed editor for those of you who work with DaVinci Resolve software,

🍎🍎 And two 1 terabyte solid state drives for your backup.

🔥🔥🔥 All you have to do is make a simple timelapse video with the Blackmagic app and upload it to YouTube. When you submit, you’ll paste in the YouTube URL, and from there, Photowalkers will vote to select the winners. (Open to US residents only.)

✅ CONTEST LINK: https://photowalkstv.com/timelapse-across-america/

✅ As many of you know, the timelapse mode on the Apple Camera app is 100% automatic, only shoots in 1080p and is vastly inferior to what you get with the Blackmagic app. If you let the camera roll for 15 minutes, or one hour or even one full day, Apple’s auto tools will ensure that your video can never be longer than 30 seconds. You get full 4K and creative control with the Blackmagic app. The Android app isn’t as restrictive as Apple’s, but you get way more choices with Blackmagic.

✅ The Blackmagic app can go for days, or even weeks, and you get to decide how long the final product will be. (You know me: I really have let the camera run for days, most recently from the balcony of the fabulous San Diego Sheraton.)

In the video above, I announce the contest, and offer a full tutorial on how to use the Blackmagic app for timelapse videos.

✅ In a nutshell, here’s what you need to know:

* Open the app.

* Go to Settings.

* In Record, the first section, click the tab for Timelapse Recording.

* Choose your frame interval. Timelapse videos are a series of still photos, stitched together into a video. How often you take new photos determines how fast the world moves. The Apple native app tends to be about one frame every two seconds. If you want to move faster, try 1 frame every 10 seconds, or even 1 frame every minute. (In the video tutorial above, I show the difference between the intervals.)

* Go to Camera, compose your shot, click record, and have something to keep yourself busy. You’ll want to record for at least 15-30 minutes, if not longer.

🔥 Voting begins on April 4th, and the winners will be announced April 9th. Subject matter? Up to you. Length? Up to you. Just make a short awesome timelapse video. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Again, to submit

https://photowalkstv.com/timelapse-across-america/

Newsbytes

SIRI: Last week we spoke about how Apple was losing the AI wars to Amazon, Google and others and what issues it was having with creating an all-new, more responsive Siri digital assistant. This week, Apple responded by axing the Siri chief and assigning him to another division. Unfortunately, the replacement comes from another rare Apple dud, the $3,500 Vision Pro. No words.

NO PORTS: During the spring, rumors about what shape and size the next iPhones will be heat up, and this week was so exception: the latest—could there be a new iPhone in the fall without the USBC/Lightning charging port? I’ve seen several people mention online how they think this is a good idea. Who needs a charging port that seems to always get ruined by water and dust damage, when you can just use wireless charging via the magnetic MagSafe connector on the back? Fine, I’m with you there, but….I use so many accessories that connect to the port, like my beloved Rode microphones, and flash and solid state drives that connect directly into iPhone 15s and 16s. Well, there’s always AirDrop for transferring video and photo files—but what are we going to do about audio?

Your thoughts?

New Google budget priced Pixel 9A for $499. Every spring, Google releases a budget version of its latest flagship phone, and this year it’s the Pixel 9A, selling for a good $100 less than the recently released iPhone 16e. Tom’s Guide has a good write-up on the new features and camera improvements, which include better low-light performance, the addition of a Macro mode and support for astrophotography.

🤳 No Selfies in Ibiza! I always try to keep you up on the latest uproar over Selfies, and the latest comes from the good people of Ibiza, Spain, and their revolt against the Instagram class. Specially, tourists with iPhones not welcome! Thank you Petapixel for the report.

🍕 My longtime friend Sol Lipman bought a pizza shop in downtown Santa Cruz and lived to tell about it. Fascinating read!

Photowalks on Sunday

On Sunday’s edition of Photowalks on Scripps News, we visit the desert oasis of Palm Springs, USA. The show is available wherever you get your streaming: Amazon Fire TV, Roku, Apple TV, Pluto, Plex, LG, Samsung and Vizio TVs and more.

We just returned from a festive four days in one of the most unique cities in the world, New Orleans. I hope to have that episode ready for you next week, so stay tuned.

Meanwhile, wouldn’t this weekend be a great time to film a timelapse with your phone?

Jeff

Visit the island community of Galveston, Texas, and meet local podcaster J.R. Shaw, “spice queen” Concetta Maceo and Kat Crain, the owner of the Galveston institution SkyKatz and Ruthtalksfood author Ruth Stroud who join Jeff to explain the appeal of the city with so much history and beauty, where time has seemingly stood still.

http://www.photowalkstv.com

In this episode, we put on our best Casey Kasem for a countdown of the 100 locations we’ve visited on PhotowalksTV through the years, from the Hollywood Walk of Fame to the California Gold Country.

Along the way, we’ve got some beaches, some France, Spain, Italy, Mexico and Canada, a little Ohio, Florida and Georgia, and the entire West, from Washington to Montana, from Colorado to Utah and then some.

Have a listen as we offer tidbits about each visit.

And ICYMI, be sure to catch the video companion as well.

https://photowalkstv.com/100-photowalks/

The audio companion to the PhotowalksTV episode about California’s Gold Country, with narration about the places visited on the show, where we stayed and ate, and some of our favorites along the way.

Also features extended interviews with folks we met during the filming of this episode, including Bronte Wilhelm from the Angel’s Camp Museum, Erica Cookson from Franny’s Farm Table in Placerville, Rebecca Stoddard from Boeger Winery and journalist Odin Rasco.

If you enjoyed this episode, let me know, and I’ll do more audio companions in the future.

And ICYMI:

The episode:

The blog post:

https://photowalkstv.com/california-gold-country-photo-road-trip/

When both Apple and the photo centric publication PetaPixel in the same week deem that Kino is the smartphone app of the year, I take notice.

Kino is an app for iPhone video shooters who want manual controls over what they see, and an alternative to the all-automatic sheen of making videos in the iPhone Camera app.

The cost is all of $9.99, and it’s a relative bargain.

What Apple said: “Kino shows users how cinematic life can be through its film-inspired filters and advanced controls.”

Petapixel: “Kino is just that one small extra step to mobile video capture that makes it a lot more approachable.”

Have you heard about iPhone video advancements in the 15 and 16 series that let you shoot video in the “ProRes,” and “Log” formats, for better control over your color and final filmic look to the project? The Kino app helps you make sense of all that and offers tools to make use of them in a way easier fashion than via the iPhone Camera app. On the iPhone Camera app, you have to take the time to process the images. Not so with Kino.

You also get the ability to shoot in manual focus and adjust the lighting with more refinement.

Kino comes from the folks at Lux, which also makes the Halide app, covered here a few months ago. It’s the still photo app for people who don’t like shooting everything in auto mode on the iPhone, and offers, like Kino, an unprocessed version of what you see in real life.

So let’s run down Kino.

In a welcome twist for an app developer, Lux actually begins the process with a manual telling you about all the features. But let’s admit it: no one wants to read. They just want to press buttons.

So let me tell you what they are.

* The tools shown on the main page are basic: Auto focus vs. manual, the choice of lenses (.5 ultra-wide, wide and telephoto, if you have them on your iPhone) the format you want to shoot in (LOG vs. regular processed video) and the welcome sight of audio meters, to let you know that you indeed have audio.

* Two other buttons send you to color grade options. Similar to Styles, Apple’s tools to apply different color looks to your photos, before or after the fact, these different kind of film looks are offered, and can be applied to the video before you start shooting. In tech terms, they’re called LUTs, and by having them right there in the app, it makes the editing process a whole lot easier, as they can be added before or after you shoot.

* A second arrow on the main page brings up more choices: White Balance lets you adjust the color, and you can also increase the stabilization, use the level tool to make sure your horizon is in check and flip the camera around to selfie mode.

Finally, there’s Settings, where you have the ability to apply more color grades (many are available for sale on the internet) and change the quality of your recording.

The big deal about the app is shooting in LOG (unprocessed video) and getting to apply the different filmic choices (called LUTs) directly to the video. The look is a little less sharpened and glossy, and more reminiscent of what things looked like in the film days.

Let’s be honest though. Most people wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a graded video and out of the camera automatic on the iPhone. I can, however, and I think it looks great. Since you read this newsletter, I’m guessing you’ll be able to tell the difference too.

My go-to video app is still Blackmagic Camera, which offers many of the same features, for free, plus the ability to record great timelapse videos, in a slightly more complicated fashion, but it’s really easy to recommend Kino. The app is for anyone who wants to improve the look of their videos and see what all the fuss is about from the filmmaking community for getting higher grade iPhone videos. For $9.99, you can’t go wrong.

You’ll need an iPhone 15 or 16 to get the most of the app. Kino is only available for iPhones. Sorry Android fans.

A Watch App too

In Petapixel’s best of article, it also signaled out a $6.99 Apple Watch app that should appeal to photographers, called Lumy. This app gives you information about sunrises and sunsets, when to expect Golden and Blue hour and more. “It works alongside Apple’s various Watch faces and is the perfect companion for outdoor photographers,” Petapixel said. I don’t have an Apple Watch (my old one won’t connect, and I don’t like wearing watches anyway,) but this sounds like great info I’d love to have on my wrist.

Other award winners

Petapixel named the iPhone 16 Pro the phone of the year, the new Mac Mini the computer of the year, and Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve editing software the desktop software of the year.

DaVinci is software that’s free, unlike $299 for Apple’s Final Cut Pro or a hefty monthly subscription (starts at $20.99) for Adobe Premiere, and is beloved by editors for color grading tools. Plus—ahem, it’s free. PetaPixel says it’s “powerful and fast, but also feature-rich.”

Of the iPhone, PetaPixel called it “the uncontested champ of content creation. No other smartphone comes close to the iPhone for making high-quality videos.” It signaled the phone out for the new Camera Control feature, which sounded great to me when it first came out, because it’s a one-click button to open the camera faster, but in reality, I haven’t used it since. It’s too cumbersome, and I find it easier to just open the camera the only way. Videos look great though!

Phone update

Last week I told you to be very wary of the “free” phone offers from the big 3 wireless companies, which, in a nutshell, will upgrade you to a higher rate program that you don’t need, give you an entry level phone with little storage on it and extend your contract another year to pay for the “free” device.

They also make you pay a hefty sales tax on the purchase price of the phone. Get a new iPhone 16 Pro for free? In California, add $100 tax and the $50 or so “activation” fee.

My mom Judy would like you to know that you can skip all those games by picking up a decent used model. She likes Androids, especially cheap old ones, and paid $175 for a Samsung Galaxy S20 FE (the current models are S25) for $175. That’s a little more than the tax/fees for the “free” device without having to pay for a higher rate contract or extend the terms.

She says:

“Had Samsung, so wanted same to be familiar with the workings. Not concerned about photo capabilities. Do take pictures. Mostly to upload to Etsy or eBay for items I'm selling. The cost, including tax, and new case, was less than tax on "free" phone. I’m very happy with decision not to get "free" phone.”

At $175, even if it was only one year of use, that’s great.

(To answer the question you’re thinking: I bought her a new phone earlier this year, but it was too small—she didn’t like it, and had me return it.)

YouTube TV Stinks!

Actually, I think the streaming alternative to cable TV is as good as it gets, with a easy to follow interface and the ability to record TV shows and watch them later. But the pricing is just out of whack. It was just a few years I covered the introductory press conference when it started with a $35 monthly rate. By 2024, it had climbed to $72.99 monthly, and this week YouTube announced a hefty $10 monthly price increase, to $82.99 monthly. The culprit? Higher programming costs.

To which I say: I left cable because I didn’t like paying over $100 a month to watch TV and get all these channels I never look at.

Fireworks

Last weekend the city of Manhattan Beach, where I live, kicked off the holidays, as it always does, with a big fireworks display, and as always, I was there to document it with a video. What was different this year though was that I made it a group project. A bunch of us camera enthusiasts got together at a local party, and then dispersed, to get different points of view of the rockets blasting. Having a New Year’s party this year around a fireworks display? You might try this method—as it makes for a more interesting video. The video clips were all shot on iPhones.

Thanks as always for taking the time to read, watch and listen! I’m off to the next big Photowalks shoot next week, back to San Francisco, so here’s hoping for lots of dry days!

Jeff

I’ve got two new New Mexico episodes of Photowalks all cued up for you.

We leave Santa Fe for a drive north to tiny Abiquiu, pop. 200, where the beloved artist Georgia O’Keeffe had her home, in both town and the nearby Ghost Ranch. What’s a visit there like? Let me show you.

From Abiquiu, we continue further north, to perhaps my favorite spot in the Land of Enchantment, Taos, home to the oldest living continuous community in the United States, the Taos Pueblo, a thriving artist community and some of the best desert landscape you’ll see anywhere.

This is a return visit to Taos—the last time I did an episode there two years ago the Pueblo was closed, and I hadn’t yet met Ruthann McCarthy, Sol Lothe or Alberto Real from the amazing Camino Real Imports shop.

Ruthann is the friendly woman in the cowgirl hat who runs the Legacy Cafe in the town Plaza—her family has been in the Plaza for over 100 years and no one knows Taos like she does. Sol is the character who takes people up, up and away in his Rio Grande Balloons. He was nice enough to invite me up there for a ride in his beautiful balloon, and do a great interview from the skies. Alberto’s family runs this electric curio shop, with seemingly over 1 million items—everything from sun art, hanging ristras and pottery, to lots and lots of skulls.

These episodes were filmed primarily on the iPhone 16 Pro and 15 Pro Max models, with some key balloon shots on the Insta360 X4 and driving shots on the GoPro Hero 12.

And ICYMI: Santa Fe

Northern New Mexico, as you can see in the videos, is extra magical in late October, with beautiful fall colors, so mark your calendars for next year.

I hope to be back in the spring, with visits to Las Cruces, Roswell, White Sands and more, so stay tuned.

Thanks as always for watching, reading and listening.

Jeff

This is the time of year when many blogs and tech news sites start hunting for supposed “deals” and offer “tips” on what to buy for the big Black Friday sales holiday.

What they’re really doing is fishing for affiliate link commissions.

The “deals” are always subjective, however, it is true that every retailer you know and love will have products discounted. Whether you really want them or not is another story.

The discounts are only worth it if it’s something you’re actually looking for. I, for instance, want to buy a new computer, and I know that Apple traditionally only offers (teeny) discounts for Black Friday. So I’m in. I’ll wait and shop, and walk out with a new Mac Mini that may cost less during the sale. Or may not.

I do get questions all the time about the mobile gear I use to produce to make a travel series, so since we’re in buying season, I’m going to run down the list—most of what I use is already on sale, with decent savings that might interest you.

Do know that like other newsletters, we too get a commission for affiliate links, but the purpose of this piece isn’t to sell, but to enlighten. (The mini commissions do help keep the lights on and pay for those grilled cheese sandwiches!)

Photowalks Gear

What does it take to produce a travel series on mobile phones, mostly all shot by me? Read on:

Phones: I bring the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max as my main cameras on the road, along with a Samsung Galaxy S23. I couldn’t be happier with the quality, except when sunspots put weird marks in the image.

A big question this year was on how big an upgrade the iPhone 16 is from the 15 series. Very minimal. The 16 phones have a “Camera Control” button on the side that brings up the camera and settings in what was billed as a quicker response, but in fact it’s awkward and dialing in the settings is no easier. Plus, the 16 phones have artificial intelligence features that mostly do things that don’t greatly improve our lives, like summarizing e-mails and a new, not more responsive Siti. More new features are coming in 2025, so stay tuned, but I’m guessing the iPhone 17 will be more of a substantial upgrade. (The best AI feature is a iOS18 freebie that works on older phones too—the ability to instantly transcribe any recording made in the Voice Memos app.)

Rode Wireless Go II Microphones: These little portable mics changed my life, making it much easier to get good audio out in the field, and mic up interview subjects. That said, there is a competing product that many of my fellow YouTubers swear by and it’s the DJI Mic II, a product I’ve thought about switching to, because it’s truly wireless. With my mic, I plug the receiver into the USB-C port via a cable on the iPhone and it connects to the transmitter that is on my lapel. The DJI unit just slips directly into the USB-C port, however, sans wires. Rode just came out with a copy of the DJI Mic called the Wireless Micro, with a pair selling for $149.99. I’d love a pair of those on Black Friday sales! (But how many Mics do I need? I already have four pairs of Rode mics!)

Peak Design Travel Tripod. Ever notice how on Photowalks, I address the camera, without having my arm extended in one of those “I’m holding the iPhone at arm’s length” shots?

I pull that off by placing the phone atop my trusty tripod, which beyond my “stand-ups” is also vital for timelapses and interviews.

I’ve been carrying around heavy tripods for years, but it wasn’t until I started toting the lighter Peak Design travel tripod that I actually enjoyed carrying the thing. It’s pricey, but a hefty Black Friday sale brings the price down to $300 from $379. It’s light, it’s sturdy, it opens and closes quickly and fits into a suitcase. The runner-up is Neewer’s Litetrip LT32, which set out to clone the Peak Design tripod, but with cheaper materials. It too fits into a suitcase, takes a little longer to unfold, but is on sale for just under $170, down from $230.

Cages. I house the iPhone 15 Pro Max in a Neewer filmmaking cage. I also use the $40 Small Rig Cage as well. (I paid $40 and it’s on sale for $25.) The reason for the cage? It has slots to plug in the mic and light (LED by Aperture, $72, normally $99) and can connect to a tripod or Selfie Stick/mini tripod (Insta360, $21) without the need for an additional smartphone tripod mount. I don’t use gimbals, the product sold to help you supposedly steady your video shots. I’m not a fan—they take too long to set up, and the difference in quality is so minimal it’s not worth the effort. I feel I can get video pans that are just as smooth with a Cage atop the selfie stick.

Insta360 X4 camera. For those times in your life when you want to get a shot of you walking down the street, and there’s no one around to film you. Or, you want a shot of a bunch of you waving from a hot air balloon in the sky, or from the top of a lighthouse. The Insta360 cameras have two lenses, on the front and back, giving you a complete wide-screen view. The shots are wild and you can do some crazy things with the camera. I wouldn’t do a travel video without it, but only when used sparingly. The camera sells for $500, but is now on sale for around $425. (The X4 is the new edition, released in 2024 with higher resolution than the previous model, and yes, the shots really look better on the X4.)

GoPro Hero 12. I didn’t upgrade to the new GoPro Hero 13 this year, a model that primarily offered new lens attachments and a better battery. I still use the Hero 12 in pretty much every video I do, for awesome driving shots. The 12 is on sale, $100 less than last year, for $299 while the Hero 13 is also discounted and only $40 more. If you’re new to GoPro or need an upgrade, I’d get the new one.

DJI Mini 4 Pro. What is a travel video without a sweeping drone shot? For that, we turn to the Mini 4, the smallest full-featured drone DJI makes for $999. (Amazon has a $40 Black Friday discount on it.) You recall that last December, the ocean ate my drone when I got too close for one more shot, and there went my old Mavic Air 2S. The Mini comes with its own controller for flying that doesn’t require being connected to the phone, which I like.

And while we’re on the subject of drones, I wrote a few weeks ago about DJI’s latest Neo, a drone that flies by itself, without needing a controller, and I said it would be one of the biggest hits of the season, as it sells for just $200. I stand by that, but that doesn’t mean it’s good. I bought and returned the drone when I discovered it’s just a toy and doesn’t fly very high.

Power: When I’m out in the field on a shoot, the iPhone starts running low on juice by 11 a.m., which is why I never travel without several power banks (and multiple phones.) I like this MagGo from Anker, which has a nice discount of $53, down from $90.

Mac Mini/MacBook: I edit every episode of Photowalks on a 16 inch MacBook Pro from 2021, but the computer is showing its age by slowing down. I plan on augmenting it with a second computer, the new Mac Mini with M4 Pro chips, which has more power than the iMac. (The Mini has the new M4 Pro chip and 12 core CPU and 16 core GPU, vs. 10 core CPU and the regular M4 chip on iMac.) The Mini starts at $599, but a souped up version on Amazon is $1369. down from $1399. However, the unit I want, with all the extras, will sell for just under $2,100, so let’s see if I can’t get a better price from Apple on Black Friday.

External solid state drives

If you buy one thing on this list, make it the Samsung T7 Shield SSD drive. In the digital age, we’re constantly running out of room, and way too many of us don’t take the time to backup our photos physically, beyond limited online. The T7 drives are small, quiet (no moving parts) work wonderfully, and offer more room than ever. This same drive sold for $400 a year ago and is now on sale for $263 for a 4 terabyte model.

Kondor Blue Hub

On these pages some time ago I expressed a desire to buy a hub that would connect the power bank, a solid state drive and a microphone and lights to the iPhone. These little hubs are hard to find, but Kondor Blue’s $90 hub, long in the works, finally started shipping. The USB-C Media Hub is truly just that: a piece of hardware with slots to connect the other devices. The issue is figuring out how to connect it to an iPhone, and how to connect the other devices as well while you’re running and gunning. (Kondor Blue has NO documentation available and its customer service is woefully un-responsive.) In a nutshell, it needs several adapters to connect it and devices to the iPhone. Because of the limitations, I’ve hardly used it. Watch the video below to see how ridiculous it looks.

Hobolite Mini LED. I bring this battery powered light with me out in the field for some extra help on night shots and love it. It’s not overly bright, but it is brighter than my small LED. The price is $250 and I haven’t seen it on sale.

Cables

We spoke a few weeks ago about the issue of charging devices in hotel rooms, mostly with too few slots in the room for AC, and outdated charging devices that won’t connect to current gear. All the usual suspects have Black Friday discounts, so if you’re always struggling, now would be a good time to pick up multiple prong outlets and charging bricks from Anker, Neewer and the like.

Greg mentioned buying a three-pronged charging cable—currently on sale for $10. Mike told me about this Anker outlet extender, which looks like the perfect accessory for all of our bags. I’m seeing two outlets and 3 openings for USB-C devices, the cable that works with most modern devices. It’s selling for $11, down from $19.

Don’t forget you’ll also need the right cables, depending upon which device you have—i.e., an older iPhone with Lightning (USB-C to Lightning) or USB-C to USB-C if you have a Galaxy, Pixel or iPhone 15 or 16. I recommend buying extras and leaving them in your suitcase, to be dedicated for travel.

Have fun shopping everyone!

In other news

—Dish Network and DirecTV aren’t merging afterall. DirecTV said it couldn’t make the financials work. And like that, Dish’s SlingTV announced it was raising prices, due to the never-ending price hikes from programmers.

—What do MSNBC, CNBC, USA Network, E! and Oxygen have in common? They’ve all been dumped by owner Comcast, shifted into a new division for ailing and non growing cable channels. How MSNBC and CNBC will continue to interact with current sibling NBC News is a big question for the future.

—The Department of Justice wants Google to shed its Chrome browser, thinking that Google uses it to coerce more people into using their search engine. Google does a lot of sneaky things, but I don’t use Google Search because somebody made me. It gets better results than Microsoft’s Bing. Period. Take away Chrome, and we’ll still use Google, unless Chat GPT gets so good in the next year that we turn there instead. What do you think readers?

Thanks as always for taking the time to read, watch and listen. What one device or accessory do you hope to pick up? Let me know in the comments.

Jeff